In Poll, Ecuadoreans Deem President `Most Dislikable'

Latin America & Caribbean - In Brief

December 23, 2004

QUITO, Ecuador -- President Lucio Gutierrez topped the list of the "most dislikable" people of 2004 according to residents in Ecuador's two largest cities, a leading polling company said Wednesday. The poll by the private company Informe Confidencial, or "Confidential Report," showed that 28 percent of 800 people interviewed in Quito and Guayaquil deemed Gutierrez the "most dislikable" man of the year. He was followed by his political archrival, former president and leader of the rightist Social Christian party, Leon Febres Cordero, who garnered 13.5 percent. The poll was taken Dec. 11 and had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.